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Debut release: Cantate, Sonates & Concertos
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
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2000s
Biography
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Biography
Johann Heinrich von Weissenburg (c. 1660 – 26 January 1730), known as Giovanni Henrico Albicastro, was an amateur musician and composer of the Baroque era.
Biography
Albicastro came from Klosterneuburg near Vienna, or the village of Bieswangen, near Pappenheim in central Bavaria, not far from the village of Weissenburg ("White Castle", thus "Albicastro" in Latin or Italian). Johann Gottfried Walther included Albicastro in his Musicalisches Lexicon (1732) under the mistaken supposition that Albicastro came from Switzerland; consequently he has often been included in lists of Swiss musicians.
In 1686, Albicastro moved to Leiden, in the Netherlands, where he registered at the University of Leiden as a Musicus Academiae, but his name does not appear in the university's archives.
In 1696, a collection of twelve of his trio sonatas appeared, entitled Il giardino armonico sacro-profano ("The sacred-profane harmonic garden"), Op. 3. Edited by François Barbry, it was published in Bruges by François van Heurck; no copies of the last six, or of Albicastro's opus 1 or opus 2 from Bruges seem to have survived. In Amsterdam a separate set of opus numbers were published by Estienne Roger: collections of violin sonatas (Opp. 2, 3, 5, 6 and 9), trio sonatas (Opp. 1, 4 and 8), and string concertos (Op. 7) in a Corellian idiom.
During the last phases of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1713), he served as a captain of cavalry. He remained active in this position until 1730, when he died in Maastricht. One source mentions that he may have died in 1738, but this is erroneous.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 14 | 70.2th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 2 | 75.7th |
| Studio albums | 2 | 78.8th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 5 | 78.8th |
| Recording span (years) | -261 | 2.2th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (2 release groups · 2 studio albums)
Albums · 2
1991 · studio album
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Tracklist · 23 tracks · 1:04:51
1Coelestes angelici chori: I. "Coelestes angelici chori"5:262Coelestes angelici chori: II. "Ah mi dilecte amantissime Jesu"0:483Coelestes angelici chori: III. "Sum beata fortunata"7:064Trio sonata, op. 8 no. 11: I. Adagio1:455Trio sonata, op. 8 no. 11: II. Allegro1:436Trio sonata, op. 8 no. 11: III. Adagio1:067Trio sonata, op. 8 no. 11: IV. Affettuoso - Vivace - Adagio5:118Trio sonata, op. 8 no. 11: V. Allegro1:459Trio sonata, op. 8 no. 9: I. Affettuoso2:0110Trio sonata, op. 8 no. 9: II. Allegro0:5611Trio sonata, op. 8 no. 9: III. Grave1:1812Trio sonata, op. 8 no. 9: IV. Allegro2:4513Trio sonata, op. 8 no. 9: V. Largo2:5414Trio sonata, op. 8 no. 9: VI. Allegro2:1915Sonata for violin and continuo, op. 9 no. 12 "La Follia"11:4116Concerto Grosso, op. 7 no. 2: I. Grave1:3717Concerto Grosso, op. 7 no. 2: II. Allegro2:4818Concerto Grosso, op. 7 no. 2: III. Grave2:2219Concerto Grosso, op. 7 no. 2: IV. Allegro1:3620Concerto Grosso, op. 7 no. 2: I. Affettuoso2:0621Concerto Grosso, op. 7 no. 2: II. Allegro2:0822Concerto Grosso, op. 7 no. 2: III. Grave1:4923Concerto Grosso, op. 7 no. 2: IV. Allegro1:412007 · studio album
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Tracklist · 50 tracks · 1:47:56
Disc 11Concerto a 4 in F major, Op. 7, No. 1: I. Spirituoso - Piu presto - Adagio - Spirituoso - Presto - Adagio1:432Concerto a 4 in F major, Op. 7, No. 1: II. Allegro1:543Concerto a 4 in F major, Op. 7, No. 1: III. Grave2:134Concerto a 4 in F major, Op. 7, No. 1: IV. Allegro2:295Concerto a 4 in D minor, Op. 7, No. 2: I. Grave2:056Concerto a 4 in D minor, Op. 7, No. 2: II. Allegro2:347Concerto a 4 in D minor, Op. 7, No. 2: III. Grave2:188Concerto a 4 in D minor, Op. 7, No. 2: IV. Allegro1:299Concerto a 4 in C major, Op. 7, No. 3: I. Andante0:5410Concerto a 4 in C major, Op. 7, No. 3: II. Allegro1:3911Concerto a 4 in C major, Op. 7, No. 3: III. Tremolo, Spiccato: Adagio3:4612Concerto a 4 in C major, Op. 7, No. 3: IV. Allegro2:4613Concerto a 4 in C minor, Op. 7, No. 4: I. Grave1:5614Concerto a 4 in C minor, Op. 7, No. 4: II. Allegro2:1815Concerto a 4 in C minor, Op. 7, No. 4: III. Adagio4:5416Concerto a 4 in C minor, Op. 7, No. 4: IV. Allegro2:0917Concerto a 4 in G minor, Op. 7, No. 5: I. Spirituoso1:2918Concerto a 4 in G minor, Op. 7, No. 5: II. Grave1:2119Concerto a 4 in G minor, Op. 7, No. 5: III. Da Capella2:1620Concerto a 4 in G minor, Op. 7, No. 5: IV. Adagio1:5121Concerto a 4 in G minor, Op. 7, No. 5: V. Allegro3:4922Concerto a 4 in B flat major, Op. 7, No. 6: I. Grave - Allegro - Adagio - Grave - Allegro - Grave3:1723Concerto a 4 in B flat major, Op. 7, No. 6: II. Allegro2:2224Concerto a 4 in B flat major, Op. 7, No. 6: III. Grave e spirituoso1:2225Concerto a 4 in B flat major, Op. 7, No. 6: IV. Allegro2:47Disc 21Concerto a 4 in B minor, Op. 7, No. 7: I. Affettuoso - Allegro - Adagio - Spirituoso2:152Concerto a 4 in B minor, Op. 7, No. 7: II. Allegro2:073Concerto a 4 in B minor, Op. 7, No. 7: III. Grave1:254Concerto a 4 in B minor, Op. 7, No. 7: IV. Allegro - Da Capella - Allegro2:075Concerto a 4 in D major, Op. 7, No. 8: I. Grave4:146Concerto a 4 in D major, Op. 7, No. 8: II. Allegro1:457Concerto a 4 in D major, Op. 7, No. 8: III. Grave2:498Concerto a 4 in D major, Op. 7, No. 8: IV. Allegro1:539Concerto a 4 in G major, Op. 7, No. 9: I. Adagio - Allegro - Grave - Adagio - Allegro - Grave2:1310Concerto a 4 in G major, Op. 7, No. 9: II. Allegro1:5011Concerto a 4 in G major, Op. 7, No. 9: III. Adagio1:5412Concerto a 4 in G major, Op. 7, No. 9: IV. Allegro1:3213Concerto a 4 in E minor, Op. 7, No. 10: I. Adagio0:5714Concerto a 4 in E minor, Op. 7, No. 10: II. Allegro1:5615Concerto a 4 in E minor, Op. 7, No. 10: III. Andante2:2016Concerto a 4 in E minor, Op. 7, No. 10: IV. Presto1:0517Concerto a 4 in A major, Op. 7, No. 11: I. Andante - Adagio - Andante - Adagio - Allegro - Adagio1:3018Concerto a 4 in A major, Op. 7, No. 11: II. Grave1:3019Concerto a 4 in A major, Op. 7, No. 11: III. Allegro2:3020Concerto a 4 in A major, Op. 7, No. 11: IV. Grave1:5121Concerto a 4 in A major, Op. 7, No. 11: V. Allegro2:1822Concerto a 4 in F minor, Op. 7, No. 12: I. Affettuoso2:1323Concerto a 4 in F minor, Op. 7, No. 12: II. Allegro2:0424Concerto a 4 in F minor, Op. 7, No. 12: III. Grave1:4825Concerto a 4 in F minor, Op. 7, No. 12: IV. Allegro2:09
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Henrico Albicastro head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 14 | 70.2th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 2 | 75.7th |
| Studio albums | 2 | 78.8th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 5 | 78.8th |
| Recording span (years) | -261 | 2.2th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Henrico_Albicastrobiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
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